Why Trump Should Run a Startup, But Not The Country
In tech startup–speak, Donald Trump is a 1, and Hillary Clinton probably lost the presidential election because she’s a 2.
And no, those numbers have nothing to do with the president-elect’s hand size or the way Clinton rocks a pantsuit.
The designation correlates to the way their brains work as executives. Just about every wildly successful tech founder is a 1, from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. By contrast, the kind of spreadsheet-wielding, jargon-loving managers who hang their MBA degrees on the wall are probably 2s. It may surprise you that Trump lands in the 1 bracket, but read on.
The 1-2 construct comes from Ben Horowitz, a founding partner . It also jibes with what I’ve heard from investors about startup founders for two decades, and it makes for an interesting lens to put on Trump as he assembles his team and starts to learn the difference between the nuclear strike button and the White House garage door opener.
